The Board of Mayor & Aldermen has agreed to the sale of site In 't Wieër in Hoensbroek. On this site at the Prof. Tinbergen-/Prof. Eykmanlaan, Cicero will build one hundred care homes for the elderly.
The Municipality of Heerlen helps residents to better insulate their homes. Together we ensure warmer homes in the winter and lower energy costs. With two new subsidies we make sustainability accessible to everyone. Also for people with a lower income. This is the next step in Heerlen's sustainability offensive.
The municipality is working on a new heart for Heerlerbaan. Shopping center Giesen Bautsch will be renovated. Above the stores there will be 41 apartments for sale in the middle segment. Together with the Brede Maatschappelijke Voorziening (BMV) and community center Caumerbron, this will create a place where shopping, living and meeting come together.
A green facade where bees find food, a roof that cools and retains rainwater and a row of nesting stones in the wall for swifts. In the future this will become more and more normal in Heerlen. The city council has adopted the policy framework 'Nature-inclusive building'. With this, the city is taking a big step toward building where nature is not an afterthought, but a natural part of every design.
Alderman Marco Peters of Management and Maintenance and Martien Nillesen of Weller, along with residents and volunteers, officially opened the newly landscaped garden at senior citizen complex De Eik.
During the Limburg Archaeology Day 2025 at the Limburgs Museum, the cup inscribed FLAC was voted the Limburg Top Find! This unique find, excavated in 2024 on Raadhuisplein in Heerlen, was found in an early Roman tomb near the intersection of two Roman roads.
On April 23, 2024, the municipality of Heerlen received word that as of 2030 the hospital in Heerlen will no longer have room for emergency rooms, ICUs and a birthing center. The municipality commissioned second-opinion studies. The results are known.
